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Yes, BM25 is a Strong Baseline for Legal Case Retrieval
Guilherme Moraes Rosa, Ruan Chaves Rodrigues, Roberto Lotufo, Rodrigo Nogueira
We describe our single submission to task 1 of COLIEE 2021. Our vanilla BM25 got second place, well above the median of submissions. Code is available at https://github.com/neuralmind-ai/coliee.
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